I must admit that's why I'm a member too I have been a member of Backstage since 1993 and have thought about quitting it for a long time, because it doesn't give me anything... Besides the wristbands of course . The magazine is boring and the layout on the website is just terrible... I tried joining the message board overthere, but when I got my access code I couldn't log on anyway, so I thought to h*ll with it... And most of their topics are not very interesting anyway...